@goobering Looks like Simon Long is at it again. I wonder if he actually bothered to test it with a headless system this time. I am packing to go away for a few days, so I won't be trying for a week or so.

@goldilocks The phases are 120° apart so √3 is right. Obviously the US does some things differently (I spent a decade working with North American telcos, who just didn't understand the ITU standard used by the rest of the world).

Most of the world distributes 3 phase power to premises; each usually has a single phase, but alternate premises use a different phase to "balance" the system. This is explained well in the Wiki article you linked. If the US (or some parts - I gather there is no national uniformity) uses the grounded centre of a phase would make distribution balancing a nightmare! The 110V system already makes distribution loss 4 times higher, but having current flow in the Neutral would double this!

@goldilocks @Milliways Can't see anyone having any issues with it. 'Pixel' is, after all, so easily Googlable alongside the name of a computing platform.

@goobering Sure. But what are they actually going to find? I presume the intention here is to not bother documenting it (unless that "Help" does more than just say "version 123"), and leave that up to "crowd sourcing" like us. Or they might actually add stuff to the github repo/main site docs. If not IMO that's just lazy and irresponsible -- my other thoughts about Simon Long's implicit attitude aside (and probably this isn't solely his decision), it's great to say "Oh I really like the new

MS Windows frame grabbing so I copied that" (hopefully there's no rounded corner patent there, lol) but obviously what they're not going to copy from normal proprietary vendors is customer support, and I presume what they're not going to copy from commonplace FOSS practice is a user mail list, etc. that devs take some responsibility for dealing with. Will they even bother with a bug tracker? No mention of that in the blog. I guess because there's no bugs!

Perhaps my perspective is incorrect since I've never used the LXDE interface, but it seems to me the questions we do get here often don't get handled well. At least in that case you can say to someone, "Well LXDE has an official website including a wiki and a forum".

Of course the Foundation has a forum, but I'm guessing that devs (or, the dev) aren't going to be fielding questions there except to the extent that it is part of their job description. Which may be "whenever" or "not really".

Meaning again, they're most likely leaving it 100% up to crowd sourcing, which is 100% lame.

OTOH there's a lot of enthusiasm in the comments on the blog, the question then is are those people who are capable and willing to contribute to providing that crowd source of support here, there, or wherever.